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1-11 - CSB The Yoke of Babylon/ The Yoke of Nebuchadnezzar/ Judah to Serve Nebuchadnezzar, through v. 22/ Jeremiah Counsels Submission to Babylon, through v. 22/ (LEB vv.
1-15 - Jeremiah Uses Fetters and Yokes to Illustrate His Message of Submission)
Jeremiah called to deliver God’s message to various messengers of kings, vv.
1-4
Message: God is Sovereign Creator; He has given the land to Nebuchadnezzar and all nations shall serve him, vv.
5-7
Message: Any nation that doesn’t serve Nebuchadnezzar will perish, v. 8
Message: Don’t listen to lying seers who will cost you your life, vv.
9-10
Message: Any nation that does serve Nebuchadnezzar will live in their land, v. 11
vv.
12-22 - CSB Warning to Zedekiah/ (LEB vv.
16-22 - The Vessels of the Temple)
Message to Zedekiah specifically, vv.
12-15
Why perish?
Don’t listen to the false prophets
Submit to Nebuchadnezzar and live!
Message to the priest and the prophets, vv.
16-22
Don’t listen to the false prophets about the vessels returning
Pray the vessels that remain continue to remain as the Judah submits to Babylon
But in fact, the vessels that remain will be carried off because Judah will not submit
The Lord will, however, bring them back and restore them in His time.
Introduction
It is very difficult to oppose what everyone else says is right.
Jeremiah faced that difficult situation in Jeremiah 27.
A group of ambassadors met with Zedekiah, king of Judah, to come up with a plan to resist King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
God, however, had a different plan, an unpopular plan, one that He sent through Jeremiah.
Rather than resisting King Nebuchadnezzar, God said that these kings and their kingdoms should submit to King Nebuchadnezzar.
It should be noted that Jeremiah was called to be a prophet to the nations (1:5).
Huey, F. B. 1993.
Jeremiah, Lamentations.
Vol.
16.
The New American Commentary.
Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.
Second Timothy 4:3 says…
That was true in Jeremiah’s day, and it is true today as well.
People itch to hear what they want to hear.
Those who tell them what they don’t want to hear aren’t tolerated very long.
Even so, those who speak the truth of God as revealed in His Word are called to speak it courageously even when it isn’t tolerated, even when the message and the messenger will be rejected.
As we’ll see, Jeremiah had the courage to obey and speak God’s truth boldly.
Will we have the courage to obey?
Will we speak God’s truth boldly even if others hate the message we bring?
[CONTEXT]
Chapters 27–29 form a literary unit that deals with Jeremiah’s continuing struggle with the false prophets.
These messages should have put to rest any false hopes that Babylon’s rule would be brief.
[TS] Let’s notice some TRUTHS from this chapter that people tend to hate…
Major Ideas
Truth #1: God is the authority.
We are not the authority.
Those who lie to us and tell us what we want to hear are not the authority.
Nebuchadnezzar’s rule wide (animals) and long (to the third generation).
When the appointed time came for the termination of Babylonian supremacy, the rulers of Persia, Media, and contiguous areas finally overthrew it.
God is Creator of the universe and Administrator in the affairs of the nations.
The false prophets were holding out baseless hopes that the temple vessels taken to Babylon were soon to be returned.
This was a powerful incentive for Judah to revolt against the Babylonians, but Jeremiah reiterated the necessity of submitting to Nebuchadnezzar (v.17).
The vessels were originally made by Solomon but were doubtless added to through the years by gifts from the people (cf. 1 Kings 7:15, 23, 27, 48–50).
Some were carried away in the deportation of Jehoiakim (cf. 2 Chronicles 36:5–7), and even more were carried away in 597 B.C. (cf.
v.20; 2 Kings 24:13).
Instead of these vessels being returned “shortly,” as the lying prophets claimed, the vessels remaining in the temple would be carried off too (cf.
v.22; 2 Kings 25:13).
To the prediction of the carrying away of all these things, the Lord added a promise that they would be restored (v.22) in the day that he would execute judgment on Babylon.
And the vessels actually were returned to Jerusalem by Cyrus at the beginning of his reign (c.
536 B.C.; cf.
Ezra 1:7–11).
No reason is given for the gathering of the envoys in Jerusalem.
It is quite likely they were there to plot rebellion against Babylon.
The expression “his son and his grandson” (lit.
“son’s son”) must not be taken literally.
The Lord warned the other nations not to listen to their prophets or diviners.
Diviners were people who read omens and claimed to communicate with higher powers through the reading of omens (cf.
Josh 13:22; Ezek 13:9).
Judah was warned not to listen to “interpreters of dreams” (lit.
“your dreams”; cf.
Deut 13:1–5; Jer 23:25–32).
They also were warned not to listen to “mediums” (translated as “soothsayers,” RSV; “diviners,” NJPS), a people whose function was uncertain.
Consulting them was prohibited by Deut 18:9–13 (cf.
Mic 5:12).
Sorcerers, those who practiced magic, were also assuring the people that they would not serve Babylon (cf.
Exod 22:18; Lev 19:26; Mal 3:5).
Their reassuring lies only stiffened the people’s resistance against Jeremiah’s warnings.
Their refusal to listen to Jeremiah would result in their removal from their land.
They would perish in faraway places.
Because they believed the false prophets, the Lord declared that he would banish both Zedekiah and the prophets who were leading him astray (see 39:5–7, where the fate predicted here for Zedekiah overtook him).
[APP] We like God’s authority when it means pleasant things for us.
Do we still submit to it when it means unpleasant things?
Truth #2: Sin comes with consequences.
The meaning of the yoke is explained in v.8.
Those resisting the Babylonian power, as the coalition was planning to do, would be punished by the threefold stroke of sword, famine, and plague—well-known results of war.
To resist the known will of God is always spiritual suicide.
The pillars were made of bronze and were placed in front of the temple; their names were Jakin and Boaz (cf. 1 Kings 7:15–22).
Before being taken away to Babylon, they were actually broken into pieces because they were too large to take intact.
The Sea was a large cast basin, supported on the backs of twelve cast oxen, and used for the washings of the priests (cf. 1 Kings 7:23–26).
There were also stands to support the lavers (cf. 1 Kings 7:27–37; 2 Chronicles 4:6), and the stands were on wheels.
All of these remaining vessels would be taken to Babylon also, Jeremiah prophesied (vv.20–21).
The ox yoke was a wooden bar or bars fastened about the neck by leather thongs.
It was placed on cattle or oxen for plowing or threshing.
Truth #3: Submission is the way of salvation.
11 “But the nation which will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let remain on its land,” declares the LORD, “and they will till it and dwell in it.”
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Though the major emphasis of Jer 27 is on God’s threat of punishment if the people refused to submit to the Babylonian yoke, it also speaks of another facet of God’s nature.
He is always ready to forgive and give an opportunity for a new beginning.
The same God who pronounces judgment on sin also proclaims hope for those who will turn to him.
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